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William Madison Randall Library

The William Madison Randall Library serves as a dynamic instructional and
research resource of the University of North Carolina Wilmington (UNCW). Randall
Library is named for William Madison Randall, Wilmington College president from
1958 to 1968. Its collections include more than two million items in various
formats, including approximately one million books, bound journals, and print
government documents; over 65,000 print and electronic journals, over 750,000
microform pieces, and more than 85,000 media items (e.g., DVDs, CDs). In
addition, the Library provides approximately 200 online databases and extensive
full text resources. Databases, e-journals and over 30,000 electronic books are
available to UNCW students, faculty and staff with Internet access anywhere and
anytime. An online catalog and circulation system provides easy, efficient
access to most of the Library’s collections.

The Library’s online catalog can be expanded to search the UNC Coastal
Library Consortium (UNCW, Fayetteville State University and the University of
North Carolina at Pembroke) and requests can be placed for those materials
directly from the online catalog. The Library’s interlibrary loan and document
delivery service provides access to information resources held by other
libraries around the world free of charge to UNCW students, faculty and staff.
Requests are submitted online through the ILLiad system.

The Library provides a reserve reading service to aid students and
instructors in accessing required and supplemental materials for courses. Much
of this material is in electronic format, available 24/7. Books and videos for
short loan reserve reading/viewing are held at the Circulation/Customer Services
Desk. The reserve system can be searched by course, department, instructor or
document title or author. Information about reserves can be found at http://library.uncw.edu/reserves.